cognition
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They’ve read the research documenting how the outdoors, including urban green spaces, improves cognition, social connection and physical strength, while decreasing depression and anxiety in all ages, but especially seniors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Not surprising, then, grandparenting has been associated with improved mobility, less depression and improved cognition, especially for older cohorts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
It’s also unclear whether restricted eating times would help those who don’t need to lose weight or whether further curtailing the time of eating would make even greater improvements in cognition, Shapses said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
"But it carries major risks of spawning emotional over-reliance and distorted social cognition," he wrote.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
Perhaps the most common—and the most important—forms of rapid cognition are the judgments we make and the impressions we form of other people.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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“There are intrusions of traumatic memory, there’s avoidance of salient reminders, there are negative alterations in cognitions and in mood, and there are alterations in arousal and reactivity,” Kaufman said.
From The Verge ● Apr. 27, 2022
Hope-related cognitions are important: Snyder and his colleagues proposed that a person’s level of hope leads him or her to choose learning or performance goals.
From Time ● Jun. 17, 2015
By following a mindful and accepting approach to my unusual cognitions, I have learned to live in harmony with my hallucinations and delusions.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 3, 2014
Such lightning-fast cognitions are possible partly because the brain makes certain automatic assumptions: it figures that light has traveled in a straight line from the object to our eyes.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2012
Can what Bacon says of the fallacies of the mind be also said of its proper cognitions?
From The Philosophy of the Conditioned by Henry Longueville Mansel
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